Perran wrote:Your right, we do need some new blood.That won't happen if you can't even find the forum.Let's get it moved.

make your own forum then. plenty of free sites to host. A lot of the people here have actually met up and surfed together. its nice and its quiet.

do you really want the forum flooded with people posting the same shitty threads over and over again

what wetsuit do i buywhat board do i buyplease tell me every single secret spot in a 50 mile radius of my location, despite the fact that i am incapable of surfing anything other than a crumbly beach break.

ben wrote:What I can say is it wouldn't exist at all without the tireless efforts of Roberdy moderating it - he'll be happy to confirm exactly how little pressure he's had put on his shoulders by the corporate machine

Thanks Ben, haven't had much chance to spend "time" on here lately since having a baby in October! Being in a very different timezone doesn't always help but I am still around. Although we're running on an old version of PHPbb and I still change the sign up questions at least every 6 months to foil the dastardly Chinese, Russian, Thai and Indian spammers (what hardship...) I think we have a pretty decent, ad free, lightly moderated place to say largely whateverthefuckwelike here. There are still great resources to draw on and although Roy, TheDeadly, Matteboy and a bunch of other luminaries have been and gone, there's still some characters about.

Making us a feature of MSW or Surfstich might change things a bit, it might get shiny in here and maybe it would have to become content driven and raise some revenue by driving traffic to retail, I dunno, that's probably a question for Ben to answer next time he swings by. FOr me I am gonna continue living through the longest East Coast wave drought Oz has had in decades and looking after my beautiful daughter